Serve a full elected term — Solomon Lar

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Development

Bring roads, schools and services to rural Plateau

Partial

The promise

Rural development, education and agriculture across the old Plateau State (then including today's Nasarawa), on the Nigeria People's Party platform on which Lar was elected in 1979.

Assessment

Lar is remembered in Plateau as a foundational modern governor who extended roads, schools and rural infrastructure into long-neglected districts. A quantified, sourced account of delivery over 1979–1983 is limited in the summary record.

Governance

Serve a full elected term

Broken

The promise

Implicit in his 1979 election as governor of Plateau State on the NPP platform.

Assessment

Lar's elected government was removed by the December 1983 coup. He was later a detainee under the military, then in 1998–1999 became the first national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and served as Minister of Police Affairs under Obasanjo.